Albert Brooks Quotes
It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christs glorious body.
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A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.
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In our marriage, the success of our athletic dreams comes before everything. 'Hey do you want to watch a movie?' 'No, I have a hard workout tomorrow.'
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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
